@frankopizza: "Israel Rules
By Paul Craig Roberts
December 29, 2009 "Information Clearing House"  On Christmas eve when 
Christians were celebrating the Prince of Peace, the New York Times 
delivered forth a call for war. �There�s only one way to stop Iran,� 
declared Alan J. Kuperman, and that is �military air strikes against Iran�s 
nuclear facilities.�
Kuperman is described as the �director of the Nuclear Proliferation 
Prevention Program at the University of Texas at Austin,� but his Christmas 
eve call to war relies on disinformation and contradiction, not on objective 
scholarly analysis.
For example, Kuperman contradicts the unanimous report of America�s 16 
intelligence agencies, the reports of the International Atomic Energy 
Agency, and Russian intelligence with his claim that Iran has a nuclear 
weapon program. Astonishingly, it does not occur to Kuperman that readers 
might wonder how an academic bureaucrat in Austin, Texas, has better 
information than these authorities.
Kuperman is so determined to damn President Obama�s plan to have other 
countries enrich Iran�s uranium for Iran�s nuclear energy program and 
medical isotopes that Kuperman commits astounding blunders. After claiming 
that Iran has a �bomb program,� Kuperman claims that �Iran�s uranium 
contains impurities� and that Ahmadinejad�s threat �to enrich uranium 
domestically to the 20 percent level . . . is a bluff, because even if Iran 
could further enrich its impure uranium, it lacks the capacity to fabricate 
the uranium into fuel elements.�
What was the New York Times op ed editor thinking when he approved Kuperman�s 
article? Iran, Kuperman writes, needs �90 percent enriched uranium� to have 
weapons-grade material, but cannot reach 20 percent or even make fuel 
elements for its nuclear energy. So, how is Iran going to produce a bomb? 
Yet, Kuperman writes that �we have reached the point where air strikes are 
the only plausible option with any prospect of preventing Iran�s acquisition 
of nuclear weapons. The sooner the United States takes action, the better.�
It could not be made any clearer that, as with the US invasion of Iraq, a 
military attack on Iran has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction. 
An �Iranian nuke� is just another canard behind which hides an undeclared 
agenda.
One wonders about Kuperman�s non-proliferation credentials. How does a 
wanton military attack on a country encourage non-proliferation? Aren�t 
America�s bullying, threats and acts of war more likely to encourage 
countries to seek nuclear weapons?
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the United States has 
wars ongoing in Iraq where the ancient Chaldean Christian community was 
destroyednot by Saddam Hussein but by the neoconservatives� illegal 
invasion of Iraqin Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yeman, and Sudan. The US 
initiated a war, which it lost, between its puppet ruler in the former 
Soviet province of Georgia and Russia.
The US, the world�s greatest supporter of terrorism, is the main financier 
of terrorist groups that stage attacks within Iran, and US money succeeded 
in financing protests against President Ahmadinejad�s re-election and in 
dividing the ruling Islamic clerics. It was American money, weapons, and 
diplomatic cover that enabled the Israeli war crimes against the Lebanese 
people during 2006 and against Palestinian civilians in Gaza during 
2008-2009, crimes documented in the Goldstone Report.
Iran has never interfered in US internal affairs, but the US has a long 
record of interfering in Iranian affairs. In 1953 the US overthrew Iran�s 
popular prime minister, Mohammed Mosaddeq and installed a puppet who 
tortured Iranians who desired political independence.
Despite this and other American offenses against Iran, Ahmadinejad has 
repeatedly expressed Iran�s interest to be on friendly terms with the United 
States, only to be repeatedly rebuffed. The US wants war with Iran in order 
to expand US world hegemony.
One might expect a non-proliferation expert to take history into account, 
but Kuperman fails to do so. Kuperman also has nothing to say about Israel�s, 
India�s and Pakistan�s nuclear weapons. Unlike Iran, none of these countries 
are signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel, India, and 
Pakistan all developed their nuclear weapons in secret, and many experts 
believe Israel had American help, an act of treason. All three countries 
have been rewarded by Washington despite their perfidy. Why is Kuperman 
concerned about Iran, which submits to the IAEA inspections, but is 
unconcerned with Israel, a country that has never permitted a single 
inspection?
The answer is that the Israel Lobby, the US military-security complex, and 
the �Christian� Zionists have succeeded in demonizing Iran. Every real 
expert knows that an Iranian nuclear weapon would have no function other 
than deterring an attack on Iran. Ever since the US lost its monopoly on 
nuclear weapons, after using them offensively and pointlessly against a 
defeated Japan, nuclear weapons have served no purpose other than 
deterrence.
The US has no conflicting economic interests with Iran. Iran is simply a 
supplier of oil, an important one. A US attack on Iran, such as the one 
advocated by Kuperman, would most likely shut down oil flows to the West 
through the Strait of Hormuz. This might benefit refiners, who sell gasoline 
to the West and could charge enormous prices, but no one else would benefit.
Adding to the war cry are congregations of fake Christians. A great number 
of them, organized by someone�s money under the banner, �Christian Leaders 
for a Nuclear-free Iran,� has written to Congress demanding sanctions 
against Iran that amount to an act of war. The roll call 
<url> includes the �Christian� Zionist John Hagee, who, 
according to reports, denigrates Jesus Christ and preaches to his illiterate 
congregation that it is God�s will for Americans to fight and die for 
Israel, the oppressor of the Palestinian people.
Among the signatories of the �Christians� demanding an act of war against 
Iran, are Dr. Pat Robertson, president of Christian Broadcasting Network, 
Nixon-era criminal Chuck Colson, and Richard Land, president of Ethics and 
Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention. Obviously, for 
southern baptists ethics means murdering Islamists, and religious liberty 
excludes everyone but �Christian� Zionists.
It is a simple matter for an educated person to make fools of these morons 
who profess to be Christians. However, these morons have vast constituencies 
numbering in the tens of millions of Americans. There are, in fact, more of 
them than there are intelligent, informed, moral, and real Christian 
Americans.
The votes of the morons will prevail.
In the second decade of the 21st century, America�s Zionist wars against 
Islam will expand. America�s wars in behalf of Israel�s territorial 
expansion will complete the bankruptcy of America. The Treasury�s bonds to 
finance the US government�s enormous deficits will lack for buyers. 
Therefore, the bonds will be monetized by the Federal Reserve. The result 
will be rising rates of inflation. The inflation will destroy the dollar as 
world reserve currency, and the US will no longer be able to pay for its 
imports. Shortages will appear, including food and gasoline, and �Superpower 
America� will find itself pressed to the wall as a third world country 
unable to pay its debts.
America has been brought low, both morally and economically, by its 
obeisance to the Israel Lobby. Even Jimmy Carter, a former President of the 
United States and Governor of Georgia recently had to apologize to the 
Israel Lobby for his honest criticisms of Israel�s inhumane treatment of the 
occupied Palestinians in order for his grandson to be able to run for a seat 
in the Georgia state senate. <url>
This should tell the macho super-power American tough guys who really runs 
�their� country.
 <url> "
    @geovani_the_italian: "Israel Rules
By Paul Craig Roberts
December 29, 2009 "Information Clearing House"  On Christmas eve when 
Christians were celebrating the Prince of Peace, the New York Times 
delivered forth a call for war. �There�s only one way to stop Iran,� 
declared Alan J. Kuperman, and that is �military air strikes against Iran�s 
nuclear facilities.�
Kuperman is described as the �director of the Nuclear Proliferation 
Prevention Program at the University of Texas at Austin,� but his Christmas 
eve call to war relies on disinformation and contradiction, not on objective 
scholarly analysis.
For example, Kuperman contradicts the unanimous report of America�s 16 
intelligence agencies, the reports of the International Atomic Energy 
Agency, and Russian intelligence with his claim that Iran has a nuclear 
weapon program. Astonishingly, it does not occur to Kuperman that readers 
might wonder how an academic bureaucrat in Austin, Texas, has better 
information than these authorities.
Kuperman is so determined to damn President Obama�s plan to have other 
countries enrich Iran�s uranium for Iran�s nuclear energy program and 
medical isotopes that Kuperman commits astounding blunders. After claiming 
that Iran has a �bomb program,� Kuperman claims that �Iran�s uranium 
contains impurities� and that Ahmadinejad�s threat �to enrich uranium 
domestically to the 20 percent level . . . is a bluff, because even if Iran 
could further enrich its impure uranium, it lacks the capacity to fabricate 
the uranium into fuel elements.�
What was the New York Times op ed editor thinking when he approved Kuperman�s 
article? Iran, Kuperman writes, needs �90 percent enriched uranium� to have 
weapons-grade material, but cannot reach 20 percent or even make fuel 
elements for its nuclear energy. So, how is Iran going to produce a bomb? 
Yet, Kuperman writes that �we have reached the point where air strikes are 
the only plausible option with any prospect of preventing Iran�s acquisition 
of nuclear weapons. The sooner the United States takes action, the better.�
It could not be made any clearer that, as with the US invasion of Iraq, a 
military attack on Iran has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction. 
An �Iranian nuke� is just another canard behind which hides an undeclared 
agenda.
One wonders about Kuperman�s non-proliferation credentials. How does a 
wanton military attack on a country encourage non-proliferation? Aren�t 
America�s bullying, threats and acts of war more likely to encourage 
countries to seek nuclear weapons?
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the United States has 
wars ongoing in Iraq where the ancient Chaldean Christian community was 
destroyednot by Saddam Hussein but by the neoconservatives� illegal 
invasion of Iraqin Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yeman, and Sudan. The US 
initiated a war, which it lost, between its puppet ruler in the former 
Soviet province of Georgia and Russia.
The US, the world�s greatest supporter of terrorism, is the main financier 
of terrorist groups that stage attacks within Iran, and US money succeeded 
in financing protests against President Ahmadinejad�s re-election and in 
dividing the ruling Islamic clerics. It was American money, weapons, and 
diplomatic cover that enabled the Israeli war crimes against the Lebanese 
people during 2006 and against Palestinian civilians in Gaza during 
2008-2009, crimes documented in the Goldstone Report.
Iran has never interfered in US internal affairs, but the US has a long 
record of interfering in Iranian affairs. In 1953 the US overthrew Iran�s 
popular prime minister, Mohammed Mosaddeq and installed a puppet who 
tortured Iranians who desired political independence.
Despite this and other American offenses against Iran, Ahmadinejad has 
repeatedly expressed Iran�s interest to be on friendly terms with the United 
States, only to be repeatedly rebuffed. The US wants war with Iran in order 
to expand US world hegemony.
One might expect a non-proliferation expert to take history into account, 
but Kuperman fails to do so. Kuperman also has nothing to say about Israel�s, 
India�s and Pakistan�s nuclear weapons. Unlike Iran, none of these countries 
are signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel, India, and 
Pakistan all developed their nuclear weapons in secret, and many experts 
believe Israel had American help, an act of treason. All three countries 
have been rewarded by Washington despite their perfidy. Why is Kuperman 
concerned about Iran, which submits to the IAEA inspections, but is 
unconcerned with Israel, a country that has never permitted a single 
inspection?
The answer is that the Israel Lobby, the US military-security complex, and 
the �Christian� Zionists have succeeded in demonizing Iran. Every real 
expert knows that an Iranian nuclear weapon would have no function other 
than deterring an attack on Iran. Ever since the US lost its monopoly on 
nuclear weapons, after using them offensively and pointlessly against a 
defeated Japan, nuclear weapons have served no purpose other than 
deterrence.
The US has no conflicting economic interests with Iran. Iran is simply a 
supplier of oil, an important one. A US attack on Iran, such as the one 
advocated by Kuperman, would most likely shut down oil flows to the West 
through the Strait of Hormuz. This might benefit refiners, who sell gasoline 
to the West and could charge enormous prices, but no one else would benefit.
Adding to the war cry are congregations of fake Christians. A great number 
of them, organized by someone�s money under the banner, �Christian Leaders 
for a Nuclear-free Iran,� has written to Congress demanding sanctions 
against Iran that amount to an act of war. The roll call 
<url> includes the �Christian� Zionist John Hagee, who, 
according to reports, denigrates Jesus Christ and preaches to his illiterate 
congregation that it is God�s will for Americans to fight and die for 
Israel, the oppressor of the Palestinian people.
Among the signatories of the �Christians� demanding an act of war against 
Iran, are Dr. Pat Robertson, president of Christian Broadcasting Network, 
Nixon-era criminal Chuck Colson, and Richard Land, president of Ethics and 
Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention. Obviously, for 
southern baptists ethics means murdering Islamists, and religious liberty 
excludes everyone but �Christian� Zionists.
It is a simple matter for an educated person to make fools of these morons 
who profess to be Christians. However, these morons have vast constituencies 
numbering in the tens of millions of Americans. There are, in fact, more of 
them than there are intelligent, informed, moral, and real Christian 
Americans.
The votes of the morons will prevail.
In the second decade of the 21st century, America�s Zionist wars against 
Islam will expand. America�s wars in behalf of Israel�s territorial 
expansion will complete the bankruptcy of America. The Treasury�s bonds to 
finance the US government�s enormous deficits will lack for buyers. 
Therefore, the bonds will be monetized by the Federal Reserve. The result 
will be rising rates of inflation. The inflation will destroy the dollar as 
world reserve currency, and the US will no longer be able to pay for its 
imports. Shortages will appear, including food and gasoline, and �Superpower 
America� will find itself pressed to the wall as a third world country 
unable to pay its debts.
America has been brought low, both morally and economically, by its 
obeisance to the Israel Lobby. Even Jimmy Carter, a former President of the 
United States and Governor of Georgia recently had to apologize to the 
Israel Lobby for his honest criticisms of Israel�s inhumane treatment of the 
occupied Palestinians in order for his grandson to be able to run for a seat 
in the Georgia state senate. <url>
This should tell the macho super-power American tough guys who really runs 
�their� country.
<url> "
    @kayedhom: "Israel Rules
By Paul Craig Roberts
December 29, 2009 "Information Clearing House"  On Christmas eve when 
Christians were celebrating the Prince of Peace, the New York Times 
delivered forth a call for war. �There�s only one way to stop Iran,� 
declared Alan J. Kuperman, and that is �military air strikes against Iran�s 
nuclear facilities.�
Kuperman is described as the �director of the Nuclear Proliferation 
Prevention Program at the University of Texas at Austin,� but his Christmas 
eve call to war relies on disinformation and contradiction, not on objective 
scholarly analysis.
For example, Kuperman contradicts the unanimous report of America�s 16 
intelligence agencies, the reports of the International Atomic Energy 
Agency, and Russian intelligence with his claim that Iran has a nuclear 
weapon program. Astonishingly, it does not occur to Kuperman that readers 
might wonder how an academic bureaucrat in Austin, Texas, has better 
information than these authorities.
Kuperman is so determined to damn President Obama�s plan to have other 
countries enrich Iran�s uranium for Iran�s nuclear energy program and 
medical isotopes that Kuperman commits astounding blunders. After claiming 
that Iran has a �bomb program,� Kuperman claims that �Iran�s uranium 
contains impurities� and that Ahmadinejad�s threat �to enrich uranium 
domestically to the 20 percent level . . . is a bluff, because even if Iran 
could further enrich its impure uranium, it lacks the capacity to fabricate 
the uranium into fuel elements.�
What was the New York Times op ed editor thinking when he approved Kuperman�s 
article? Iran, Kuperman writes, needs �90 percent enriched uranium� to have 
weapons-grade material, but cannot reach 20 percent or even make fuel 
elements for its nuclear energy. So, how is Iran going to produce a bomb? 
Yet, Kuperman writes that �we have reached the point where air strikes are 
the only plausible option with any prospect of preventing Iran�s acquisition 
of nuclear weapons. The sooner the United States takes action, the better.�
It could not be made any clearer that, as with the US invasion of Iraq, a 
military attack on Iran has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction. 
An �Iranian nuke� is just another canard behind which hides an undeclared 
agenda.
One wonders about Kuperman�s non-proliferation credentials. How does a 
wanton military attack on a country encourage non-proliferation? Aren�t 
America�s bullying, threats and acts of war more likely to encourage 
countries to seek nuclear weapons?
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the United States has 
wars ongoing in Iraq where the ancient Chaldean Christian community was 
destroyednot by Saddam Hussein but by the neoconservatives� illegal 
invasion of Iraqin Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yeman, and Sudan. The US 
initiated a war, which it lost, between its puppet ruler in the former 
Soviet province of Georgia and Russia.
The US, the world�s greatest supporter of terrorism, is the main financier 
of terrorist groups that stage attacks within Iran, and US money succeeded 
in financing protests against President Ahmadinejad�s re-election and in 
dividing the ruling Islamic clerics. It was American money, weapons, and 
diplomatic cover that enabled the Israeli war crimes against the Lebanese 
people during 2006 and against Palestinian civilians in Gaza during 
2008-2009, crimes documented in the Goldstone Report.
Iran has never interfered in US internal affairs, but the US has a long 
record of interfering in Iranian affairs. In 1953 the US overthrew Iran�s 
popular prime minister, Mohammed Mosaddeq and installed a puppet who 
tortured Iranians who desired political independence.
Despite this and other American offenses against Iran, Ahmadinejad has 
repeatedly expressed Iran�s interest to be on friendly terms with the United 
States, only to be repeatedly rebuffed. The US wants war with Iran in order 
to expand US world hegemony.
One might expect a non-proliferation expert to take history into account, 
but Kuperman fails to do so. Kuperman also has nothing to say about Israel�s, 
India�s and Pakistan�s nuclear weapons. Unlike Iran, none of these countries 
are signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel, India, and 
Pakistan all developed their nuclear weapons in secret, and many experts 
believe Israel had American help, an act of treason. All three countries 
have been rewarded by Washington despite their perfidy. Why is Kuperman 
concerned about Iran, which submits to the IAEA inspections, but is 
unconcerned with Israel, a country that has never permitted a single 
inspection?
The answer is that the Israel Lobby, the US military-security complex, and 
the �Christian� Zionists have succeeded in demonizing Iran. Every real 
expert knows that an Iranian nuclear weapon would have no function other 
than deterring an attack on Iran. Ever since the US lost its monopoly on 
nuclear weapons, after using them offensively and pointlessly against a 
defeated Japan, nuclear weapons have served no purpose other than 
deterrence.
The US has no conflicting economic interests with Iran. Iran is simply a 
supplier of oil, an important one. A US attack on Iran, such as the one 
advocated by Kuperman, would most likely shut down oil flows to the West 
through the Strait of Hormuz. This might benefit refiners, who sell gasoline 
to the West and could charge enormous prices, but no one else would benefit.
Adding to the war cry are congregations of fake Christians. A great number 
of them, organized by someone�s money under the banner, �Christian Leaders 
for a Nuclear-free Iran,� has written to Congress demanding sanctions 
against Iran that amount to an act of war. The roll call 
<url> includes the �Christian� Zionist John Hagee, who, 
according to reports, denigrates Jesus Christ and preaches to his illiterate 
congregation that it is God�s will for Americans to fight and die for 
Israel, the oppressor of the Palestinian people.
Among the signatories of the �Christians� demanding an act of war against 
Iran, are Dr. Pat Robertson, president of Christian Broadcasting Network, 
Nixon-era criminal Chuck Colson, and Richard Land, president of Ethics and 
Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention. Obviously, for 
southern baptists ethics means murdering Islamists, and religious liberty 
excludes everyone but �Christian� Zionists.
It is a simple matter for an educated person to make fools of these morons 
who profess to be Christians. However, these morons have vast constituencies 
numbering in the tens of millions of Americans. There are, in fact, more of 
them than there are intelligent, informed, moral, and real Christian 
Americans.
The votes of the morons will prevail.
In the second decade of the 21st century, America�s Zionist wars against 
Islam will expand. America�s wars in behalf of Israel�s territorial 
expansion will complete the bankruptcy of America. The Treasury�s bonds to 
finance the US government�s enormous deficits will lack for buyers. 
Therefore, the bonds will be monetized by the Federal Reserve. The result 
will be rising rates of inflation. The inflation will destroy the dollar as 
world reserve currency, and the US will no longer be able to pay for its 
imports. Shortages will appear, including food and gasoline, and �Superpower 
America� will find itself pressed to the wall as a third world country 
unable to pay its debts.
America has been brought low, both morally and economically, by its 
obeisance to the Israel Lobby. Even Jimmy Carter, a former President of the 
United States and Governor of Georgia recently had to apologize to the 
Israel Lobby for his honest criticisms of Israel�s inhumane treatment of the 
occupied Palestinians in order for his grandson to be able to run for a seat 
in the Georgia state senate. <url>
This should tell the macho super-power American tough guys who really runs 
�their� country.
<url>"
    @alfalastinee: "Israel Rules
By Paul Craig Roberts
December 29, 2009 "Information Clearing House"  On Christmas eve when 
Christians were celebrating the Prince of Peace, the New York Times 
delivered forth a call for war. "There's only one way to stop Iran," 
declared Alan J. Kuperman, and that is "military air strikes against Iran's 
nuclear facilities."
Kuperman is described as the "director of the Nuclear Proliferation 
Prevention Program at the University of Texas at Austin," but his Christmas 
eve call to war relies on disinformation and contradiction, not on objective 
scholarly analysis.
For example, Kuperman contradicts the unanimous report of America's 16 
intelligence agencies, the reports of the International Atomic Energy 
Agency, and Russian intelligence with his claim that Iran has a nuclear 
weapon program. Astonishingly, it does not occur to Kuperman that readers 
might wonder how an academic bureaucrat in Austin, Texas, has better 
information than these authorities.
Kuperman is so determined to damn President Obama's plan to have other 
countries enrich Iran's uranium for Iran's nuclear energy program and 
medical isotopes that Kuperman commits astounding blunders. After claiming 
that Iran has a "bomb program," Kuperman claims that "Iran's uranium 
contains impurities" and that Ahmadinejad's threat "to enrich uranium 
domestically to the 20 percent level . . . is a bluff, because even if Iran 
could further enrich its impure uranium, it lacks the capacity to fabricate 
the uranium into fuel elements."
What was the New York Times op ed editor thinking when he approved Kuperman's 
article? Iran, Kuperman writes, needs "90 percent enriched uranium" to have 
weapons-grade material, but cannot reach 20 percent or even make fuel 
elements for its nuclear energy. So, how is Iran going to produce a bomb? 
Yet, Kuperman writes that "we have reached the point where air strikes are 
the only plausible option with any prospect of preventing Iran's acquisition 
of nuclear weapons. The sooner the United States takes action, the better."
It could not be made any clearer that, as with the US invasion of Iraq, a 
military attack on Iran has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction. 
An "Iranian nuke" is just another canard behind which hides an undeclared 
agenda.
One wonders about Kuperman's non-proliferation credentials. How does a 
wanton military attack on a country encourage non-proliferation? Aren't 
America's bullying, threats and acts of war more likely to encourage 
countries to seek nuclear weapons?
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the United States has 
wars ongoing in Iraq where the ancient Chaldean Christian community was 
destroyednot by Saddam Hussein but by the neoconservatives' illegal 
invasion of Iraqin Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yeman, and Sudan. The US 
initiated a war, which it lost, between its puppet ruler in the former 
Soviet province of Georgia and Russia.
The US, the world's greatest supporter of terrorism, is the main financier 
of terrorist groups that stage attacks within Iran, and US money succeeded 
in financing protests against President Ahmadinejad's re-election and in 
dividing the ruling Islamic clerics. It was American money, weapons, and 
diplomatic cover that enabled the Israeli war crimes against the Lebanese 
people during 2006 and against Palestinian civilians in Gaza during 
2008-2009, crimes documented in the Goldstone Report.
Iran has never interfered in US internal affairs, but the US has a long 
record of interfering in Iranian affairs. In 1953 the US overthrew Iran's 
popular prime minister, Mohammed Mosaddeq and installed a puppet who 
tortured Iranians who desired political independence.
Despite this and other American offenses against Iran, Ahmadinejad has 
repeatedly expressed Iran's interest to be on friendly terms with the United 
States, only to be repeatedly rebuffed. The US wants war with Iran in order 
to expand US world hegemony.
One might expect a non-proliferation expert to take history into account, 
but Kuperman fails to do so. Kuperman also has nothing to say about Israel's, 
India's and Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Unlike Iran, none of these countries 
are signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel, India, and 
Pakistan all developed their nuclear weapons in secret, and many experts 
believe Israel had American help, an act of treason. All three countries 
have been rewarded by Washington despite their perfidy. Why is Kuperman 
concerned about Iran, which submits to the IAEA inspections, but is 
unconcerned with Israel, a country that has never permitted a single 
inspection?
The answer is that the Israel Lobby, the US military-security complex, and 
the "Christian" Zionists have succeeded in demonizing Iran. Every real 
expert knows that an Iranian nuclear weapon would have no function other 
than deterring an attack on Iran. Ever since the US lost its monopoly on 
nuclear weapons, after using them offensively and pointlessly against a 
defeated Japan, nuclear weapons have served no purpose other than 
deterrence.
The US has no conflicting economic interests with Iran. Iran is simply a 
supplier of oil, an important one. A US attack on Iran, such as the one 
advocated by Kuperman, would most likely shut down oil flows to the West 
through the Strait of Hormuz. This might benefit refiners, who sell gasoline 
to the West and could charge enormous prices, but no one else would benefit.
Adding to the war cry are congregations of fake Christians. A great number 
of them, organized by someone's money under the banner, "Christian Leaders 
for a Nuclear-free Iran," has written to Congress demanding sanctions 
against Iran that amount to an act of war. The roll call 
<url> includes the "Christian" Zionist John Hagee, who, 
according to reports, denigrates Jesus Christ and preaches to his illiterate 
congregation that it is God's will for Americans to fight and die for 
Israel, the oppressor of the Palestinian people.
Among the signatories of the "Christians" demanding an act of war against 
Iran, are Dr. Pat Robertson, president of Christian Broadcasting Network, 
Nixon-era criminal Chuck Colson, and Richard Land, president of Ethics and 
Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention. Obviously, for 
southern baptists ethics means murdering Islamists, and religious liberty 
excludes everyone but "Christian" Zionists.
It is a simple matter for an educated person to make fools of these morons 
who profess to be Christians. However, these morons have vast constituencies 
numbering in the tens of millions of Americans. There are, in fact, more of 
them than there are intelligent, informed, moral, and real Christian 
Americans.
The votes of the morons will prevail.
In the second decade of the 21st century, America's Zionist wars against 
Islam will expand. America's wars in behalf of Israel's territorial 
expansion will complete the bankruptcy of America. The Treasury's bonds to 
finance the US government's enormous deficits will lack for buyers. 
Therefore, the bonds will be monetized by the Federal Reserve. The result 
will be rising rates of inflation. The inflation will destroy the dollar as 
world reserve currency, and the US will no longer be able to pay for its 
imports. Shortages will appear, including food and gasoline, and "Superpower 
America" will find itself pressed to the wall as a third world country 
unable to pay its debts.
America has been brought low, both morally and economically, by its 
obeisance to the Israel Lobby. Even Jimmy Carter, a former President of the 
United States and Governor of Georgia recently had to apologize to the 
Israel Lobby for his honest criticisms of Israel's inhumane treatment of the 
occupied Palestinians in order for his grandson to be able to run for a seat 
in the Georgia state senate.
<url>
This should tell the macho super-power American tough guys who really runs 
"their" country.
<url>"
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